Architects: Pablo Dellatorre, Estudio Montevideo
Coworkers: Arch. Sofia Faur, Arch. Ignacio Ongini
Location: Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina
Address: Chacabuco 616, Cordoba
Area: 170 m² (1829,86 ft²)
Year of the project: 2016
Photography: Gonzalo Viramonte
We changed Aquiles coffee shop’s image, which has an innovative, really cool, take-away and co-working style.
Under the motto #ESMIMOMENTO! (“It is my moment”) it was our time to change the image and functionality of a business that was already well-functioning.
After getting to know this project's backstage team, its aspirations and its public, there rose up the idea of including artists and entrepreneurs in this new stage.
Therefore, we set aside a space for artists, so as every month they can paint a mural, depicting something of themselves. The chairs and lamps also gave room to small design entrepreneurs.
All these is contained inside an exposed concrete container.
The bar counter functions as the foundation stone and gives the 'take-away concept' a special touch. It is where we can make and pick up our orders, surrounded by tables and high stools.
All the pieces of furniture were designed with linear elements which, as a sort of scaffoldings, make up the tables, the bookshelve and the bar counter's finishing.
The basement was dedicated to the coworking and to be a more relaxed space. There is a central bar counter that opens the way to different forms of expressions either in magnetic blackboards, bookshelves or in a big blackboard wall. Countertops for co-working and a large couch with coffee tables complete the setting-up of the space.
The chromatic palette was among the blacks and greys, which were matched up with the wood furniture. The color touch is on the mural.
It was a great challenge but, by the hand of the "Aquilesians", it worked really well.